2 dead, 57 hospitalized after Tampa music festival

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Tampa police reported in a news release that a 22-year-old Melbourne man and a 21-year-old Kissimmee woman were hospitalized Saturday. The man died Sunday, and the woman died Monday. The medical examiner's office wasn't immediately reporting a cause of death.

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TAMPA (FOX 13) - An investigation was underway to determine the cause of two deaths and 57 people needing medical attention at the hospital after the Sunset Music Festival at Raymond James Stadium over the weekend.

Meanwhile, the mother of the two young people who died said she did not think her daughter was a heavy drug user, but hospital staff alluded to possible overdoses from the festival.

TPD said the Medical Examiners Office confirmed two people died after being transported to the hospital from the festival. 22-year-old Alex Haynes, of Melbourne, was transported to the hospital on Saturday and died on Sunday.

Two die after Sunset festival; mother speaks out

21-year-old Katie Bermudez, of Kissimmee, was taken to the hospital on Saturday and died on Monday. Bermudez's mother hoped the phone call she received at 3 a.m. Sunday from St. Joseph's Hospital was a nightmare.

"The social worker said, 'your daughter Katie is on a ventilator. You need to get to the hospital," Nancy Bermudez recalled.

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